Food Festivals in Florida: Consider the Lobster?

As important for many in the United States as Christmas Day or Thanksgiving, National Lobster Day comes to celebrate this noble crustacean in the best imaginable way: eating it!

If you have ever come across David Foster Wallace’s Consider the lobster – an essay from the 1990s about the ethics of boiling a lobster alive in order to amplify the eater’s pleasure – you might not want to keep reading this article, let alone eating a lobster. Otherwise, be my guest.

New England, on the East Coast, is the focal point of lobster breed and consumption, and a fishing industry so strong that makes $1.8 billion in Maine alone. No wonder then where the events for the National Lobster Day will be more multitudinous.

However, a feast as good as this one ought to be celebrated everywhere and Floridians – never shy when it comes to epicurean demonstrations – will surely have a piece of it.

Indeed, the Rosen Centre Hotel in Orlando will feature lobster special menus on June 15th – you can have a traditional whole lobster at the Everglades Restaurant or a lobster ravioli at Cafe Gauguin. Fancy that?

Moreover, at The Palm in the Hard Rock Hotel in Orlando, they celebrate this day all summer. They offer a pre-fixed menu that includes lobster bisque, surf and turf with six-ounce Nova Scotia lobster tails and twin Nova Scotia lobster tails with melted butter and lemon.

So, if you are in Orlando on June 15th, take a break from the theme parks and the sun and enjoy this national day. Consider the lobster? Consider the National Lobster Day…